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2012
French government backs down on art tax
22 October 2012In the face of strong opposition from the art world, the French government appeared to back down last week from a move to include works of art valued at over €50,000 in annual assessments for wealth tax.
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Cast from record salmon catch takes £5500 at auction
22 October 2012It is doubtless the source of a little irritation, or perhaps amusement, to members of the men-only Flyfishers Club of Piccadilly that the two largest salmon ever caught with a rod and line in British waters were both landed by women.
£2.2m Qatari coin bill remains unpaid
22 October 2012Noble Investments plc, owners of A.H. Baldwin, the coin dealers and auctioneers, have announced that £2.2m in commissions due from “a significant Qatari collector” remains unpaid.
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Sheffield antiques quarter shows signs of revitalisation for retail
22 October 2012Sheffield Antiques Quarter is planning a November 25 Christmas fair as its official opening, but it has effectively already relaunched.
Online wine deal for Dreweatts
22 October 2012Dreweatts have announced a new joint venture with online wine trading platform bidforwine.com which provides live online and timed bidding services for connoisseurs, traders and investors, backed by storage facilities at the EHD bonded warehouse in Weybridge.
Delivery added to services at saleroom.com
22 October 2012Mallams’ Gentleman’s Library Sale in Oxford on October 31 will be the first to benefit from a new the-saleroom.com delivery service.
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The hand of Lely in Dorchester
22 October 2012This 2ft 5in x 2ft ½in (75 x 62cm) bust length portrait drew the attention of a number of bidders with a particular interest in historical pictures when it appeared at auction in Dorchester.
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London Underground sale is a one-off for poster collectors
18 October 2012The eagerly anticipated auction of Underground posters direct from the archives of London Transport Museum was a sell-out at Christie’s South Kensington earlier this month.
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Model locomotive at Somerset sale
18 October 2012This large, scratch-built 5in gauge Great Western Railway locomotive is one of two being sold at Lawrences of Crewkerne on November 2, with both expected to realise £3000-4000.
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Meissen collection uncovered in Derbyshire
18 October 2012A house visit in north Derbyshire unearthed a treasure trove, with every room cluttered with porcelain figures.
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First Editions galore at Bloomsbury
18 October 2012This first edition, first issue of ‘The Great Gatsby’ from 1922 is one of the star lots in a sale described by Bloomsbury Auctions as “one of the most important collections of modern first editions to come onto the market in the last ten years”.
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Is this Swiss wood-carving a self-portrait?
18 October 2012Despite being called a ‘Black Forest’ carving, this late 19th century figure by Johann Huggler of Brienz, of a poacher with dead deer, gun and a dog at his feet, the base carved with rabbits and birds, was actually produced in Switzerland rather than Bavaria.
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Swanns go native for $1.2m sale
18 October 2012Edward S. Curtis’ monumental photographic study of ‘The North American Indian’ was one of the most expensive and ambitious undertakings in the history of book production, comprising 20 illustrated text volumes and 20 folios of larger photographic plates.
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Dino Martens glasswork makes rare appearance in UK sale
18 October 2012Although originally entered into one of the regular weekly sales held by Sworders in Stansted Mountfitchet, this striking mid-century glass vessel was plucked from obscurity by a member of staff who recognised it as something worthy of further research.
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Slowhand keeps the market up to speed with £19m Richter
18 October 2012This year’s Frieze week auction totals in London were largely consistent with 2011, but the much-publicised sale of Eric Clapton’s prize abstract by Gerhard Richter (b.1932) proved crucial in bolstering the overall figures.
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Marseille picture supplies key piece to Renaissance jigsaw puzzle
16 October 2012Rare early paintings often come to major centres such as London, Paris and New York but later this month it will be the turn of Marseille in the South of France where the Maison de Ventes Leclere will offer a chance to purchase a fragment of an Italian primitive from the early Renaissance.
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University provides jobs for graduates to gain conservation experience
15 October 2012Graduates of Buckingham University’s Furniture Conservation, Restoration and Decorative Arts courses can now turn to their tutors for work.
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A wicked time in 17th century Jamaica
15 October 2012By the late 17th century, Port Royal, located at the end of the Palisadoes at the mouth of Kingston Harbour in south-eastern Jamaica, had earned the reputation of being both the richest and the wickedest city in the world.
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From Picasso’s muse to artist in her own right
15 October 2012Once she was Picasso’s muse, now she is capping her own career of more than 25 years as an artist with a three-week exhibition at The Fosse Gallery in Stow-on-the-Wold.
Trio charged over string of burglaries at auctioneers
15 October 2012Three men charged in connection with a series of burglaries involving auction houses in the South of England will appear at crown court in January.